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Multilateralism is in crisis today and the failure of the global architecture of governance is affecting developing countries the most, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday in his address to the first foreign ministers’ meeting of G20 nations in 2023. “The architecture of global governance created after the Second World War was to serve two functions: First, to […]
- India, Indonesia think tanks hold a discussion on “G20 and Global Dynamics” (Category: Breaking News)
- HAL hands over advanced light helicopter to Mauritius ahead of schedule (Category: Breaking News)
- China may not pay for climate change despite being ‘biggest annual emitter’ (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF asks China to boost vaccination, recalibrate strategy to fight Covid (Category: Breaking News)
which coordinate the preparation and management of the financial crisis between the Central […]
- Euro Action (Category: Business)
- Janaka Walisundera appointed new CEO to steer UB Finance (Category: Business)
- LNP had $2m warchest (Category: Australia, Queensland)
- Public sector management and administration reform needed in Sri Lanka - Treasury Secretary (Category: Breaking News)
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday said Sri Lanka had secured financing assurances from all its major bilateral creditors, paving the way for the IMF board to consider approval of a long-awaited $2.9 billion four-year bailout.The post IMF board poised to approve $2.9 billion Sri Lanka bailout appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ONLANKA News.
- IMF Executive Board considers Sri Lanka’s loan facility for approval today (March 20) (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF not expected to discuss Sri Lanka before year-end – sources (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF board poised to approve USD 2.9 Bn Sri Lanka bailout on March 20 (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF insists on creditor assurances to unlock $2.9 Billion Sri Lanka bailout (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka's central bank raised interest rates in an unexpected move on Friday in a bid to help the country secure a bailout package from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to stabilise its crisis-hit economy.The post Sri Lanka unexpectedly raises rates to fulfil IMF bailout requirements appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ONLANKA News.
- IMF Deal will cut Sri Lanka borrowing costs, Central Bank Chief says (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka central bank holds rates, sees sharp drop in inflation (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka gives China deal details, keeping IMF aid on track (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF says Sri Lanka debt deal could help board clear first bailout review (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post IMF’s Prescription: Panacea Or Palliative? appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- IMF Draws The Battle Line (Category: Breaking News)
- Aragalaya’s Unfinished Business (Category: Breaking News)
- Politics Of Poverty & Aswesuma (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF, ATA & RW’s Consolidation (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka's key inflation rate eased to 50.6% in February from 51.7% in January, the statistics department said on Tuesday, as food prices eased.The post Sri Lanka’s key inflation rate eases to 50.6% in February appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ONLANKA News.
- Sri Lanka’s key inflation rate eases to 4% in August (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s key inflation rate eases to 25.2% in May (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s inflation eases to 2.5% in March 2024 (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s key inflation rate rises to 1.5% in October (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Why Should We Beg IMF? – When More Than $36 Billion To Be Recovered appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Government Is A ‘Blackhole’: IMF Should Be Worried About The (225+1) (Category: Breaking News)
- Crisis Deepens Without Rescue Plan (Category: Breaking News)
- Central Bank Independence: Issue To The Fore Again, But Will The Government Have Foresight To Do... (Category: Breaking News)
- Child’s Guide To Debt Restructuring: Not A Cakewalk But A Task Entailing Hard Work (Category: Breaking News)
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank’s investment arm, said it will provide Sri Lanka with a $400 million cross-currency swap facility to help fund essential imports.The post World Bank’s IFC to provide Sri Lanka with $400 million financing appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ONLANKA News.
- World Bank s IFC to provide Sri Lanka with $400 million financing (Category: Breaking News)
- IFC to provide $400 million to banks in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s workers’ remittances exceed USD 400 Million in January 2024 (Category: Breaking News)
- IPO To Raise Rs. 400 mn (Category: Breaking News)
Islamabad , February 20 (ANI): The experience of Chinese companies working on the ground in Pakistan has been far from pleasant. Most of the early China – Pakistan Economic Corridor investments were in the power sector. The investments, however, created sizeable liabilities on the future cash flows of these projects, Indo Pacific Centre for Strategic […]
- Sri Lanka among four preferred destinations for Chinese FDIs (Category: Breaking News)
- “Made in Pakistan” in Colombo (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka turmoil highlights risk for Chinese firms investing overseas (Category: Breaking News)
- Rising Anti-China sentiment and Attacks on Chinese in Pakistan (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Sri Lanka’s Asian Heritage appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- The Influence Of Sirima Bandaranaike & Ranil Wickremesinghe On The Foreign Policy Of Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Prioritising National Interest In Navigating Geopolitical Waters (Category: Breaking News)
- The East Asian Disanalogy, Or Why Sri Lanka Cannot Be A Singapore (Category: Breaking News)
- The East Asian Disanalogy, Or Why Sri Lanka Cannot Be A Singapore (Category: Breaking News)
Facing a dire national financial crisis and an urgent need to generate foreign currency income, state-owned SriLankan Airlines (SL) is restructuring and expanding its network to markets that were strong in the pre-Covid period, including Australia, and China.
Sri Lanka is tangled in the worst financial crisis in over seven decades, triggered by a severe shortage of foreign exchange that forced the country to annouce a suspension of foreign debt repayments in April 2022.
Sri Lanka is tangled in the worst financial crisis in over seven decades, triggered by a severe shortage of foreign exchange that forced the country to annouce a suspension of foreign debt repayments in April 2022.The post Sri Lanka to make $2.6 billion in loan repayments in first half
- China confirms two-year debt moratorium offer for Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s revenue shortfall concerns IMF team – sources (Category: Breaking News)
- SriLankan Airlines says paid interest on US$ 175 million bond after sovereign debt default (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka aims to have $2.9 billion IMF loan finalised in December (Category: Breaking News)
By Maleeha Lodhi PAKISTAN’S bane has long been a narrow, oligarchic power elite that has dominated its politics and controlled its economy at the cost of people’s welfare and the country’s progress and development. Its entrenched position over decades meant that governance challenges multiplied with force and intensity, leaving the country with daunting problems of […]
- Economy tanks amid deafening political din (Category: Breaking News)
- Trust between two elites when financial discipline is lax (Category: Breaking News)
- COUNTERPOINT: Canceling student debt would narrow the racial wealth gap and stimulate our economy (Category: USA, Indiana)
- COUNTERPOINT: Canceling student debt would narrow the racial wealth gap and stimulate our economy (Category: USA, Indiana)
Excerpted from volume ii of Sarath Amunugama autobiography I was lucky both as Permanent Secretary and a researcher in the field of family planning to spend time in the east coast which is one of the loveliest parts of Sri Lanka, with its pristine beaches and a large swath of blue sea. The Information department […]
- School Text Books before December Vacation (Category: Breaking News)
- Courting Parthasarathy for JRJ, equation changes after Indira’s assassination (Category: Breaking News)
- Undernourishment as well as over-nutrition plaguing some of SL’s schoolchildren – minister (Category: Breaking News)
- UNESCO, the Cultural Triangle and some forunate contacts in Paris (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Warning Signal To RW’s Transformation Agenda appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- IMF’s Prescription: Panacea Or Palliative? (Category: Breaking News)
- A führer In The Making (Category: Breaking News)
- RW’s Rocky Road To Export Driven Valhalla (Category: Breaking News)
- RW, IMF & The Economy (Category: Breaking News)
Colombo [Sri Lanka], February 2 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar’s visit to Sri Lanka is being seen as a harbinger of positive developments and an improved economic and financial situation for the island nation. Jaishankar during his visit to Sri Lanka reasserted India’s pursuit of the ‘Neighbourhood First’ policy and the belief in not […]
- Indian External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar to visit Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- India s External Affairs Minister arrives in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘India tries to ensure ties across the world, except with China, Pakistan’ (Category: Breaking News)
- INDIAN FM MEETS POLITICAL HEADS BEFORE WINDING UP TOUR (Category: Breaking News)
Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MP Eran Wickramaratne has stated that Sri Lanka s financial crisis cannot be addressed merely by revenue raising measures, without the implementation of cost cutting and efficiency increasing measures.
In an unprecedented turn of events, Pakistan’s close allies Saudi Arabia and the UAE have asked Islamabad to forget the Kashmir issue as the country is embroiled in other complex issues that need to be resolved. “Don’t cry for Kashmir” were the innuendos used by the Middle Eastern leaders when Pakistan Prime Minister Shabazz Sharif […]
- Pakistan’s false, misleading narrative on Kashmir dispute exacerbates tensions with India (Category: Breaking News)
- Political party conspiring against IMF deal: Pakistan PM Sharif (Category: Breaking News)
- India says it has done more for Sri Lanka than IMF (Category: Breaking News)
- Will Modi’s soft power diplomacy be an antidote to Russia–Ukraine War? (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Mahinda Rajapaksa, Ministers, Tri-Services/Police, Corporates Owe Massive Amount In Electricity Bill Payments, RTI Disclosures Show appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Sri Lanka’s Privileged Are Massive Defaulters In Unpaid Electricity Bills, RTI Disclosures Show (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s RTI ‘Up In The Air’ In 2021? (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s RTI ‘Up In The Air’ In 2021? (Category: Breaking News)
- Government-Sponsored Terrorism In Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
China’s government on Friday confirmed it is offering Sri Lanka a two-year moratorium on loan repayments as the Indian Ocean island nation struggles to restructure $51 billion in foreign debt that pushed it into a financial crisis.The post China confirms two-year debt moratorium offer for Sri Lanka appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ONLANKA News.
- Paris Club proposing a 10-year moratorium on Sri Lanka’s debt – Report (Category: Breaking News)
- China’s EXIM bank offers Sri Lanka debt extension – report (Category: Breaking News)
- Analysis: China paves Sri Lanka’s way to IMF funds, but debt talks remain uncertain (Category: Breaking News)
- China dithers over IMF’s Sri Lanka debt plan, leaves Colombo in limbo (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka’s international bondholders group was prepared to engage with the island nation’s authorities in debt restructuring talks consistent with the parameters of the IMF Programme, their legal adviser, White & Case LLP, said.The post Sri Lanka bondholders ready for debt restructuring talks with authorities appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ONLANKA News...
- Sri Lanka debt restructuring stumbles as government rejects bondholders’ proposal (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka s bondholders ready for debt restructuring talks with authorities (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka Close to IMF Agreement, Is Weighing Bondholder Terms, Semasinghe Says (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka bondholders talks focus on state enterprise debt, domestic banks – sources (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka's key inflation rate eased to 54.2% in January from 57.2% in December, the country's statistics department said on Tuesday.The post Sri Lanka’s key inflation rate eases to 54.2% in January appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ONLANKA News.
- Sri Lanka’s key inflation rate eases to 25.2% in May (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka unexpectedly cuts rates by 250 bps as inflation eases (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s key inflation rate eases to 50.6% in February (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s key inflation rate rises to 1.5% in October (Category: Breaking News)
China’s efforts to gain the space it lost in Sri Lanka to India have hit yet another stumbling block after it vehemently opposed the invitation to Tibetan Buddhist spiritual guru Dalai Lama. Sri Lanka is a Buddhist-majority country and China’s record of treatment of religious minorities especially Tibetan Buddhists has not been good. China’s image […]
- China accused of blocking Dalai Lama’s Sri Lanka visit (Category: Breaking News)
- China’s wicked diplomatic maneuvers exposed (Category: Breaking News)
- Chinese Buddhist diplomacy and Sri Lanka’s predicament (Category: Breaking News)
- India’s historical connection to Buddhism (Category: Breaking News)
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is still awaiting assurances on Sri Lanka in order to present a Fund-supported program for Sri Lanka to the IMF’s Executive Board, for approval. The IMF confirmed that India has committed to help ease the debt burden of its crisis-stricken neighbor Sri Lanka as part of a possible International Monetary […]
- IMF Executive Board approves bailout package for Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF wants Sri Lanka to implement deals with official creditors (Category: Breaking News)
- Chinese Embassy in Sri Lanka slams US envoy (Category: Breaking News)
- D-day for Sri Lanka as IMF Executive Board meets to decide on EFF (Category: Breaking News)
India has committed to help ease the debt burden of its crisis-stricken neighbor Sri Lanka as part of a possible International Monetary Fund-supported program, the IMF said on Monday.The post India commits to help Sri Lanka on debt in prospective IMF program appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ONLANKA News.
- India ‘strongly supports’ Sri Lanka debt restructuring plan, it tells IMF (Category: Breaking News)
- IMF eyes creditor assurances as it prepares Sri Lanka visit (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring: China expected to inform its support to IMF today (Category: Breaking News)
- India commits to help Sri Lanka on debt in prospective IMF program (Category: Breaking News)
The International Monetary Fund wants Sri Lanka to provide more relief to the poor and vulnerable people during the financial crisis in order to secure IMF board approval for financial assistance. State Minister of Finance Shehan Semasinghe said that providing relief to the poor is an essential
- Government assures restoration of food security (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka receives 1st disbursement of US$ 250 million from WB (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka yet to receive assurance from creditors (Category: Breaking News)
- Shehan to lead Sri Lankan delegation for IMF and World Bank meetings (Category: Breaking News)
India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Thursday met Sri Lanka's top leadership and conveyed India's commitment to increase investment flows to hasten the debt-ridden island nation's economic recovery.The post Jaishankar conveys India’s commitment to increase investment flows to Sri Lanka to hasten economic recovery appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri La...
- India remains committed to assist Sri Lanka in its economic recovery – Jaishankar tells Sabry (Category: Breaking News)
- “A friend in need is a friend indeed”: Sri Lanka’s praise for India (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s creditors must take proactive steps to facilitate its recovery: Jaishankar (Category: Breaking News)
- India’s prudence towards Sri Lanka further consolidates the “neighbourhood first” policy of Prim... (Category: Breaking News)
India's foreign minister arrives in Colombo on Thursday following his country's backing of Sri Lanka for a $2.9 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan, leaving China as the island's last remaining major creditor to agree to a debt restructuring plan.The post India foreign minister visits Sri Lanka with stronger ties, China in focus appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in...
- India expected to send ‘positive’ message on debt during Jaishankar’s visit to Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Jaishankar conveys India’s commitment to increase investment flows to Sri Lanka to hasten econom... (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka expects financing assurances from China for IMF deal within days (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring: China expected to inform its support to IMF today (Category: Breaking News)
India has told the International Monetary Fund that it strongly supports Sri Lanka's debt restructuring plan as the island nation seeks a $2.9 billion loan from the global lender, according to a letter seen by Reuters.The post India ‘strongly supports’ Sri Lanka debt restructuring plan, it tells IMF appeared first on Sri Lanka News - Latest Breaking News in Sri Lanka - ONLANKA News.
- India commits to help Sri Lanka on debt in prospective IMF program (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka expects financing assurances from China for IMF deal within days (Category: Breaking News)
- India foreign minister visits Sri Lanka with stronger ties, China in focus (Category: Breaking News)
- India strongly supports Sri Lanka debt restructuring plan, it tells IMF (Category: Breaking News)
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